Open-sourcing .NET Core was a step towards laying the foundation for a cross-platform .NET to build a stronger ecosystem. The first major version of .NET Core was focused on high-performance web and microservices. Just twelve months later, with the announcement of version 2.0, multiple APIs and components were added to facilitate the migration of web applications to .NET Core. The key takeaways included recognizing that .NET Core was an extremely stable platform suitable for new application development, providing significant performance benefits over the .NET Framework . One of the developers, Jeff Amons, said that one of the .NET Core strengths was its server-centric design model:

In this episode, Richard Lander and Scott Hunter get together to discuss some of the highlights that developers can look forward to in this new release.